/#musicmonday: Building a better Best Fwends album

Best Fwends are a chiptunes/pop-punk conglomerate from Texas made up of two dudes, some machines, and an iPod. They were recently signed to Moshi Moshi, and none of the 34 (!) songs on their first LP, Alphabetically Arranged, is over two minutes. Aaww-sum.

On the other hand, for every charming, addictive, brilliant piece of sonic noise Best Fwends produces, there are two or three that either forgettable, annoying, or just bad.

So! Here’s my version of a sleeker, svelter, and sexier Alphabetically Arranged: it’s got a saner number of tracks and clocks in at 21:27.

Here’s the tracklist:

02 Adultnap

05 Cloud of Hope (f. The Death Set)

08 Days Seem Shorter

10 Dream Off

11 Dump in the Dark

13 Get Away from Me

16 House Ghost

19 Little Robo Wan

25 Sing to Live

26 Skate or Live

30 Aaww-some (Johnny Siera Remix)

Since the standard WordPress doesn’t include music uploading, I’ve uploaded them all to orcist.vox.com. You can start the list here. There’s no way to stream the entire set, so you’ll have to play each song individually (but it’s so worth it!).